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A Mobile Diary App to Support Rehabilitation at Home for Elderly with COPD: A Preliminary Feasibility Study

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The paper describes the design, development and preliminary evaluation of a mobile diary app for elderly with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). The application, called My Daily Activity (MyDA), allows patients to follow personalized rehabilitation, based on physical training, cognitive stimulation and an educational program. MyDA is based on four different modules: configuration, exercise, assessment and education. The first version of the application has been developed for tablets based on Android OS. As a preliminary feasibility evaluation, 12 elderly with COPD have used the system at home for 3 months. Both objective and qualitative data have been analyzed. Preliminary results suggest that, despite some improvements should be applied, MyDA represents a feasible and valuable solution for motivating elderly with COPD to continue rehabilitation at home. Future works should focus on making the app more usable, more interactive and more attractive – especially for the technology rejecting users.

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This work was supported by Lombardy Region and Fondazione Cariplo within the EMPATIA@Lecco project, Rif 2016-1428 Decreto Regione Lombardia 6363 del 30/05/2017.

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  1. Institute of Intelligent Industrial Technologies and Systems for Advanced Manufacturing, National Research Council, 23900, Lecco, Italy

    Vera Colombo, Marta Mondellini & Marco Sacco

  2. Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Vera Colombo

  3. Pulmonary Rehabilitation Unit, National Institute on Health and Science on Ageing, 23880, Casatenovo, LC, Italy

    Alessandra Gandolfo & Alessia Fumagalli

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  3. Dipartimento di Meccanica, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

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Colombo, V., Mondellini, M., Gandolfo, A., Fumagalli, A., Sacco, M. (2020). A Mobile Diary App to Support Rehabilitation at Home for Elderly with COPD: A Preliminary Feasibility Study. In: Miesenberger, K., Manduchi, R., Covarrubias Rodriguez, M., Peňáz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12377. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58805-2_27

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